Drawing Relationships in Northern Italian Renaissance Art

Giancarla Periti, University of Macerata, Italy Charles Dempsey, Stanko Kokole, Giovanna Perini, Marzia Faietti, Alessandra Galizzi Kroegel, Carolyn Smyth, Alessandra Sarchi, Giancarla Periti, Mary Vaccaro.

• Contents: Preface; Introduction, Charles Dempsey; The Tomb of the Ancestors in the Tempio Malatestiano and the Temple of Fame in the poetry of Basinio da Parma, Stanko Kokole; Emilian Seicento art literature and the transition from 15th- to 16th-century art, Giovanna Perini; Amico's friends: Aspertini and the Confraternita del Buon Gesù in Bologna, Marzia Faietti; A misunderstood iconography: Girolamo Genga's altarpiece for S. Agostino in Cesena, Alessandra Galizzi Kroegel; Pordenone's Passion frescoes in Cremona Cathedral: an incitement to piety, Carolyn Smyth; The studiolo of Alberto Pio da Carpi, Alessandra Sarchi; Enigmatic beauty: Correggio's Camera di San Paolo, Giancarla Periti; Reconsidering Parmigianino's Camerino for Paola Gonzaga at Fontanellato, Mary Vaccaro; Bibliography; Index.

'... a group of lively, stimulating essays which fulfil the aims of the collection. They are contributions that will appeal primarily to a scholarly art-historical readership, but the new and interdisciplinary approaches adopted will make the collection one that will be recommended reading for, and of interest to, students of Italian Renaissance art as well as to academics.' Prof. Francis Ames-Lewis, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK 'Ashgate is to be commended for publishing books of this kind...' CAA Reviews 'What these essays seem to achieve, taken together, is a multi-faceted celebration of the art of a region that ultimately challenged the hegemony of Roman, Toscan and even Venetian painting in the sixteenth century.' Gabriele Neher, The Art Book